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Drunken grandmother leaves baby with stranger at Ohio festival

PORT CLINTON – A drunken grandmother accused of leaving her 10-month-old granddaughter with a woman she’d just met at the Walleye Festival in Port Clinton on Sunday was charged with child endangering.

The woman, 52, of Pittsburgh, was in the entertainment tent with her granddaughter and was talking to some people she had just met, according to a Port Clinton police report.

She asked a woman in the group to watch her granddaughter while she would get a man in the group to dance, the report shows. The grandmother did not return for two hours, and when she came back, she couldn’t find the child, according to the report.

The grandmother then reported the child had been abducted. When the woman watching the baby heard over the loudspeaker the grandmother was looking for the child, she met people working at the festival, who took the child to police and her grandmother.

Police found the grandmother’s blood alcohol content to be 0.145, which is twice the legal limit of 0.08 for driving.

They arrested her because she was drunk while the child was in her care, according to the report.

Officers gave the child to her grandfather, who was sober and had just finished a charter fishing trip, the report shows.

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